[Sca-cooks] Period Baklava
Vitaliano Vincenzi
vitaliano at shanelambert.com
Wed Apr 11 13:46:08 PDT 2007
Yes, I believe we did have a discussion on this quite some time ago, and
that was part of the reason I removed it from my feast, along with
changing from a Greek course to an Italian course. However, popular
demand has made me go back to a Greek course, so this topic came up
again. :)
Elaine Koogler wrote:
> To be honest, I thought we had long since established that baklava,
> especially when made with phyllo, is out of period. I do have a recipe for
> a precursor to baklava that I found in a listing of Persian recipes that
> appears in the introductory material in "Soup for the Qan". Essentially,
> it's a series of very thin pancakes with a mixture of walnuts and spices in
> between each pancake, then a honey mixture poured over the top. We did this
> for our last ME feast, and it was a howling success as well. If you're
> interested in either of these, I can provide the recipes for you. I
> redacted the proto-baklava recipe, and Dame Hauviette d'Anjou did the
> Lauzinaj.
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